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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Bell Francis Turnbull
|Army number=96785
|Rank=2/Lt
|Date of birth=1918
|Age=0
|Unit=Royal Artillery - enlisted as gunner, Durham Light Infantry - Commissioned as 2/Lt 12th Bn 2/9/1939, Trf Black Watch 20/12/1939, Posted 1 TS 1/2/1940.  Posted ? Bn Black Watch, Released from service 1946.  Joined 17th Bn Parachute Regiment TA - formerly 9th Bn DLI - Captain 5/11/1948, TARO 18/5/1950.
|Company/Battery=D Coy
|Task or role=Duty Officer
|Joined Brigade=02-Sep-39
|Promotions=W/S Lt 2/8/41, T/Capt 8/4/44.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet known.
|Home address=Educated Royal Grammar School, Newcastle.  Addresses: 5, Roseworth Avenue, Gosforth,   1, Broadway West, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne 3.  Research into passenger lists suggests that he emigrated with his wife and young son to work on the Gilbert Islands 30/4/1953, returning to the UK and then moving to Lagos, Nigeria in 1958.
|Source table=1TS
}}